Probabilistic spiking neuronal nets - Neuromathematics for the computer era

This book presents and studies a class of stochastic models for biological neural nets. A biological neural net is a system with a huge number of interacting components, the neurons. The activity of each neuron is represented by a point process, namely, the successive times at which the neurons emit an action potential, also called a spike. It is generally considered that the spiking activity is the way the system encodes and transmits information.